[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

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A Terminal Data Corp Documate II fiche camera. This beast ran about $150,000
at the time.

The machine used a wire-wrap backplane that had *everything* on it,
including some 35V solenoid/relay stuff and some 220V stuff. They were well
known for having paperclips fall across the backplane and causing a
meltdown. I did it with a screwdriver that I rested on top of the plane
frame. I knocked the hinged frame with my elbow and tried to catch the
screwdriver as it fell. Instead of keeping the screwdriver off the
backplane, I fumbled it into the backplane (it probably would have hit the
floor otherwise).

The week-long service log shows that a suspected paperclip was the cause of
the failure.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
~ Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:51 PM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..
~ 
~ 
~ On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:40:33PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
~ >   Oh Christ I *HATE* that sound.  One day I was replacing a 
~ hard disk
~ > controller in a Pro350 one of those for a customer, and I happened
~ > upon a particularly loud one...I thought "Oh SHIT I just destroyed
~ > this multi-hundred-buck board..."  Most disconcerting.
~ 
~ Poll:
~ 
~ Whats the most expensive piece of equipment you've 
~ accidentally destroyed, and gotten away with it without having
~ to pay for it?
~ 
~ I think for me it was a pair of 4G Seagate HDs.  Thank god for 
~ warranties. 8-)
~ 
~ Bill
~ 
~ -- 
~ Bill Bradford
~ mrbill at mrbill.net
~ Austin, TX
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